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The morning sun slanted through the kitchen window as another year began—2026. Five boys, each with their own distinct rhythm, shuffled into the room. Elias wrapped his mother in a warm hug; Finn muttered something about band practice running late. The household hummed with the familiar, chaotic symphony of a single mother raising five sons in the wake of a difficult divorce.